Southern Tech becomes an independent four-year college of engineering technology.

The Center for Rehabilitation Technology is formed.

The Higher Education Management Institute study is established.

Homer Rice is named athletic director.

Bill Curry is named head football coach.

Buzz first appears at a student pep rally.
The Advanced Technology Development Center opens.

The Arthur B. Edge Jr. Intercollegiate Athletic Center is completed.

Bobby Cremins becomes head basketball coach.

The Technology Policy and Assessment Center and the Microelectronics Research and Communication Research Center are established.
The Materials Handling Research Center, Center for Architecture Conservation, Center for Excellence in Rotary Wing Aircraft, and Communication Research Center are established.
Roll Call tops the $2 million mark for the first time.

Georgia Tech ranks No. 1 in the country in its per capita number of national merit scholars and national achievement scholars.

The Centennial Campaign begins. Its goal is to commemorate Tech's 100th anniversary by raising $100 million by 1988.

The Research Center for Biotechnology is established.

The Long Range Plan begins.
The Engineering Experiment Station changes its name to the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

The Graduate Cooperative Program is formed to include graduate students in Tech's work study program.
Tech kicks off its centennial observance with an exhibit at the High Museum called "China: 7,000 Years of Discovery." Other events set for the three-year observance include a speaker series featuring such notables as B.F. Skinner and Sandra Day O'Connor; a Showcase 100 open house for Tech's classroom, laboratory and research facilities; a special convocation at the Fox Theatre featuring Jacques Cousteau; and the publication of two Georgia Tech histories: "Engineering the New South" and "Images and Memories."

The basketball team wins the ACC chamionship and advances to the quarterfinals of the NCAA championship.

The Centennial Research Building is completed.

Tech wins its first ACC baseball championship.

The School of Ceramic Engineering incorporates the metallurgy program to form the School of Materials Engineering.

The Georgia Legislature authorizes $15 million to fund the Center for Excellence in Microelectronics.
Georgia Tech ranks No. 1 in the nation in engineering research and development by the National Science Foundation.

The Russ Chandler Baseball Stadium is completed.

The Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and the College of Architecture Construction Research Center are established.
The Georgia Tech/Emory University Biomedical Technology Research Center is established.

The School of Engineering Science and Mechanics is incorporated into the School of Civil Engineering.

John P. Crecine becomes Tech's ninth president.

A bequest by the late George W. Woodruff is valued at approximately $35 million -- the largest single gift in Tech history.

Bobby Ross is picked to succeed Bill Curry as head football coach.

Homecoming king and queen titles change to the student-elected Mr. and Ms. Georgia Tech competition.
The Centennial Campaign ends after collecting $202,749,234 -- more than double its original goal.

The Wardlaw Building is completed on the site of the south stands.

The stadium at Grant Field is named for Bobby Dodd just weeks before his death at age 79.

Drownproofing is no longer required.

Research at Tech tops the $120 million mark.
Restructuring approved by the Board of Regents adds the College of Sciences, College of Computing, and Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy and International Affairs. Also added: School of History, Technology and Society, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, and a division of fine arts.

The Georgia Tech Alumni Association wins the Grand Gold Award for best alumni programs from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

The Joseph Mayo Pettit Microelectronics Research Center is completed.

The proposal for academic restructuring wins approval in a poll of both the academic faculty and the general faculty and receives the unanimous support of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.